Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751837AbdINUA3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:00:29 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f68.google.com ([209.85.214.68]:34500 "EHLO mail-it0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323AbdINUA1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:00:27 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QDmuyPwkoenHDNCvohnEEUFljy1z3TDUryQ33jz1VhIFwec8NfyD2H9ZYzHh1h299rPDWUKy3NQfe3jenf+jIE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170913140528.GA19278@veci.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:00:24 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6KgdT4Asdi-L6ODMXIy6cfmSQFs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.14 To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , "linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 20 On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > d_real() is currently is *the* overlayfs-op: I know. And it's ugly as #%^! hell. We don't want to make it uglier. And honestly, if you think that "it's only for overlayfs, so I can do anything I damn well want to this p[iece of shit" is valid, then I want to re-educate you. That is *not* how the VFS layer works. If you can't bother to try to make it act as a proper VFS thing, then I don't want to see patches from you to the VFS code. I'm perfectly happy just reverting those changes again. Because I'm not making the VFS layer bend over backwards due to some overlayfs braindamage. Linus